AI x Future Cities | Manas Bhatia

Softwares used: Midjourney AI, Adobe photoshop

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Manas Bhatia, an Architect and computational designer from India, has been using the eventuality of the artificial intelligence( AI) tool Midjourney to produce surreal architectural generalities. The AI-generated images from Manas Bhatia's AI x Future Cities series examine the viability of sustainable infrastructure in the wake of the world's rapid urbanization. The architect and designer envisions a sustainable utopian city of the future with imposing skyscrapers covered in facades made of algae. The green buildings, which are envisioned as biophilic air-purification towers of the future, provide numerous advantages for infrastructure and modern society by lowering carbon emissions. Manas Bhatia uses Midjourney to carry out his vision, feeding text-based instructions into the AI system to create this futuristic, green architectural design.

The AI x Future Cities project uses Midjourney to imagine what sustainable architecture might look like in a perfect future. For the green cities they inhabit, Manas Bhatia's AI-generated series envisions tall, futuristic skyscrapers covered in algae that also serve as vertical gardens and biophilic air purification towers; the city of the future that is a green energy utopia with modern structures and no pollution.

While using these text-to-image programs, one needs to be careful of the choice of words. For the desired output one may have to run several iterations, modifying their initial prompt (text which you give to the AI as input) as they go. For reference here I used a combination of the below-listed words and phrases :

‘’symbiotic’’, ‘’biomimetic’’, ‘’fluidic apartments made of algae’’,‘’bioluminescent material”,“act as air purification towers”,and ”futuristic city”